Or at least focus on the meat of the article. I asked https://www.perplexity.ai/ to provide a good overview of it. Response:
Access to the full content of the PJ Media article is currently unavailable for direct reading. However, the overview provided in your attached summary offers a clear and comprehensive outline of the article's main points.
Overview of "Free Sex Costs Everything: How the Sexual Revolution Broke Marriage, Men, and Women"
Biological Roots of Gender Roles:
The article details how fundamental biological differences between men and women, particularly in fertility and reproductive costs, have historically shaped social customs and expectations surrounding sex and marriage.Marriage as Social Covenant:
Traditional marriage linked male sexual access to responsibilities of provision and protection, framing monogamy and fidelity as stabilizing forces in society. Practices like dowry, dower, and breach-of-promise laws provided material and legal security for women.Collapse of Traditional Systems:
The sexual revolution, aided by contraception and changing cultural attitudes, redefined sex as recreation rather than as creation and protection. Marriage became centered on personal happiness rather than duty or necessity, and legal or social supports for women eroded.Consequences for Men and Women:
The shift left women with increased autonomy but greater insecurity and anxiety, while men gained sexual freedom but often lost purpose and responsibility. The result is described as a breakdown in the “biological covenant” that once benefited family and society.Social Instability and Masculine Displacement:
With the collapse of monogamous norms, unattached men lack traditional outlets or missions, resulting in social disengagement, online isolation, or antisocial movements. The so-called “incel” phenomenon is cited as a symptom.Modern Outcomes and Diagnosis:
The article argues contemporary society responds to this chaos through denial, blaming social constructs rather than biological and social realities. Increasing rates of loneliness, reliance on medication, and meaningless relationships are portrayed as unintended consequences.Call for Rebuilding Covenant:
The conclusion urges a restoration of social covenants that bind duty, freedom, and responsibility, beginning with family and faith rather than government intervention.The article is a critique of the modern sexual order, suggesting that attempts to liberate men and women from traditional constraints have generated new forms of insecurity, division, and misery, and calls for a return to deeper social and moral structures.
AI is scary stuff!
Reads like some person really wrote it, and reaches the same conclusion I reached.
Marriage became centered on personal happiness rather than duty or necessity, and legal or social supports for women eroded.When, in Human History, have unmarried women with multiple children from multiple "baby-daddies" ever enjoyed as much social approval and govt. support?
When, in Human History, have promiscuous women suffered so little social stigma?
When, in Human History, have women filing for divorce been so privileged by the Law?
When, in Human History, have women previously been so able to enter the public forum (daytime t.v. or the earlier equivalent) and shout to the heavens how abortion is a "right" or a "holy sacrament?"
When, in all of Human History, has society been expected to actually pay for a woman's birth control or abortions?
The unsavory developments of the past 50 years have benefited 85% of all women, and at most 15% of all men (and generally only the most reprobate of all men).
Regards,